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  • 03/2019
  • B07M6CMHKZ B07M6CMHKZ
  • 99 pages
  • $3.99
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  • 12/2018
  • 1729400302 978-1729400302
  • 140 pages
  • $12.95
I.V Olokita
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Reasons to Kill God
I.V. Olokita, author
“If you are able to write 180 pages of your memoir without putting the pen down, I might let you live…” Klaus Holland loves no one other than himself. He victimizes people for being Jews or for just being alive. He is an old Nazi criminal who escaped to Brazil and was caught and prosecuted. He is now forced to write his memoirs as part of his punishment – the same punishment he used to give Jews at the concentration camp. This punishment makes him remember and re-live his cruelty as the concentration camp commander and as a man. Deus Esperanca learns from his mother that what he believed to be his family’s history, was just a bunch of lies. He discovers that his real father is Klaus Holland – the sadistic Nazi fugitive. Having this information and his father being aware of what he knows, their lives intertwine and create chaos.
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Amazon

Reasons to Kill God is a hard-hitting short novel dealing with the worst kind of monster: the human kind. Holland Klaus, a Nazi who ran an extermination camp at Undspol, stands on trial for the atrocious acts he committed. The story proper is told as a flash-back and once begun, is impossible to put down. The reader want to know what happens next, or rather, what came before.

This is not an easy book to read, as Holland Klaus is a despicable character, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I was rooting for him to receive his well-deserved comeuppance in the shape of the death-penalty and was very disappointed it seemed he might have escaped this fate at the end of the book. Or did he?

Reasons to Kill God is a chilling, but worth-while read. Again, it’s not an easy read, but I would invite anyone interested in the human psyche to pick it up and give it a try. You will not be disappointed.

Amazon

I read hundreds of books about the Holocaust and World War 2 and Nazis but I've never read something like this.
Even it is only logical that people who thought that killing millions of other people are sick, it is something totally different when you find yourself in their mind. Their world. In which people are just... something. Not even things. Toys. But something you have and you can do whatever you want with them and there is no question about Right or Wrong because there are no consequences for their behavior.
The whole story, including those almost human parts of the main character, makes the concept of Nazism more understandable. And more terrifying. The fact that people like Klaus can live among other people, live with other people, have a child, and yet be the monster all that time is something which grants you a nightmare. At least in my case.

Geekosmos

Reasons to Kill God is a book by the anonyous writer IV Olokita. The book tells the story of a Nazi officer who manages to escape Germany and finds himself in Latin America, where he builds his life from scratch.

Before I dive In, a small disclaimer: I have received the book free of charge in order to give an honest review.

The book begins with the inevitable – The officer’s trial. I love that. Personally, I would not like to read a book that tells the story of a Nazi who got away. The one that survived or managed to flee. I would hate that. Although, if they feel human enough, I might enjoy reading about their change of heart. This is not the case with Reasons To Kill God. The officer, who is also the narrator of the story, is a firm believer in his ways and tells his story in a stalwart, resolute manner.

One of the main takeaways from this book is that “politicially correctness” not only died a long time ago, it was brutally murdered.

You will read this book and you will ask yourself – “This is more than 20 years ago, but aren’t some of these things still happening today?”

The answer is Yes, unfortunately.

Olokita keeps you on your toes. You can’t stop drinking the words because they weave the story so good together. It’s like seeing a beautiful flower on the street and reaching out to pluck it, only to find that the flower is in fact, devouring human flesh. What the hell changed to leave you standing there, bleeding with a stump for a hand?

In conclusion, I loved this book. I recommend anyone who wants to read the villain’s point of view to jump on this book.

New review on Goodreads

27/1 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I would like to recommend a book that most of you probably don't know (it was translated only a month or two ago from Hebrew into English, and I have already reread it in English.)

This is the review I published in Israel a year ago when I read the book for the first time, and at the end of the report, I added a few more insights after a second English reading. In both cases, my review will not be able to explain how much this book has caused me a profound shock, especially of myself. This is my recommendation for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
***

When I was twelve, my mother, like all mothers, wanted me to have a party. I also wanted a big party and gifts. "It's not right to grow differently in a group of equals," she said, and I agreed with her.
My mother worked hard. For almost a year she worked in several jobs to raise enough money to produce the event. But, at the end of that year, she got sick, and things got complicated with daddy, so we both forgot about it, and there was no party.

Later on, she and I would talk about the days of that time, about daddy and high school, and about this party that never came true. A party she had admitted she planned for herself.

Did I ask her why?
Hell yea!

Yet she only replied that there were lies that one could not explain. "When you have children of your own, you will understand." that's what mother said.

Olokita's Reasons to kill God is a book that made of lies that adults tell themselves and their children. Like Olokita's other book, "Wicked girl," (which I read in Hebrew) this one also moves back and forth in time and plays the reader as if he too part of the story. With excellent writing, Olokita tells a story through the eyes of an escaped Nazi criminal who was forced to bear the raising of Dios, a six-year-old boy who forced on him by brazilin law as a result of pleasures he had spent with a prostitute in Brazil. As the plot reveals, we exposed to life stories of many people, so different from each other, and they all intersect at the end of the book into one extraordinary tale.

Reasons to kill God is a surprising and addictive book that read at once, like Olokita's previous book; This book is not easy to grasp regarding content, the horrific heroes and the high level of writing.

I must admit that at first, I thought it was a book that talked about God, a guide like or a book about life. Not, This is a book about the most despicable people, as well as the good ones and the lies we all tell ourselves in our way of life.

In short, this is a book suitable for anyone planning one day to grow up.

*** After rereading the book in English I managed to get some new insights about the war, the Holocaust and people in general. And most disturbingly for me - this book made me for the first time in life to identify with the worst side of human beings, and I am shocked by myself.

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01/24/2019
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01/28/2019
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01/23/2019
Reasons to kill God is now at pre-order

I am pleased to update that the Israeli bestseller "Reasons to Kill God" is now available at Amazon for purchase as a pre-order

Formats
Ebook Details
  • 03/2019
  • B07M6CMHKZ B07M6CMHKZ
  • 99 pages
  • $3.99
Paperback Details
  • 12/2018
  • 1729400302 978-1729400302
  • 140 pages
  • $12.95
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